As most of our readers will know by now, it’s Christmas wishlist time for gamers! That’s right, people: this week, it’s E3, a time when the video game world waits with baited breath to see what some of the world’s biggest gaming companies are planning to bring to their consoles, as well as what you can expect from them in terms of future download content.
So ready your popcorn, have your energy drinks at hand, and...

It is not unusual in these ultra-competitive times for games consoles to have titles exclusive to them. After all Microsoft’s Xbox has Halo, and Sony’s PlayStation has the Uncharted franchise. What is unusual, though, is for a high value and previously multi-platform franchise to completely change its sales model and become a one brand band. That is exactly what has happened, however, as the next Tomb Raider game, Rise Of The Tomb Raider,...

In the closing hours of the first day of the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, gamers were no doubt already feeling that they were at the limit of their hype. With heavyweights like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo filling up the day’s schedule, it might seem at first that publisher and developer Ubisoft wouldn’t make so much of a splash compared to the big kids in the yard.
They definitively proved otherwise, however, in their action-packed,...

Microsoft’s Global Media Briefing opened the 2014 Electronics Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, taking place in the Galen Centre, commonly the home of USC Trojans basketball team. But on this occasion there were no athletes, only gamers!
Phil Spencer Head of Xbox opened the brief, firing everyone up with new footage and a live demo of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare developed by Sledgehammer Games. The demo showed players wielding assault...

When the Xbox One was officially revealed and many of the details were let known to the public, one of the key issues involved having your Kinect plugged in to actually use the console. While that rule was soon abolished, it was too late to stop the shipping of the Xbox One without the Kinect.
However in a post on the official Xbox website, Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, announced that the Xbox will be “Delivering More Choices for Fans”...

E.T. has been found, well the video game at least. Released on the Atari 2600 in 1982, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was considered a critical and commercial failure, to the point that Atari dumped millions of unsold copies in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico… or so the story goes. As part of an exclusive documentary produced by Microsoft’s Xbox Entertainment Studios for the Xbox, Avengers and X-Men 2 writer Zak Penn will helm the documentary...

From 28 February, Microsoft will be dropping the price of the Xbox One to £399.99. That’s £30 off the retail price of £429.99 when the console was released back in November 2013. On top of this they will be launching a new Xbox One bundle, which comes with a copy of Titanfall.
The new bundle will also cost £399.99. As well coming with the Xbox One and a controller, it will include a download code for a digital copy of Titanfall, a Kinect sensor,...

The first TV advert for the Xbox One was shown in the US and also uploaded on the Xbox YouTube channel. Interestingly it doesn’t feature any videogames.
For now, Microsoft want people to know that you can use their console to Skype with your friends while using their enhanced NFL app for fantasy football.
Microsoft are aiming to promote how the Xbox One is not just a videogames console, but a complete home entertainment unit. So the overall...

Microsoft didn’t have a very good time of it at E3 and they know it. That’s why they finally listened to the gamers and decided to make some changes. Today Microsoft’s President of the Interactive Entertainment Business, Don Mattrick, made an announcement on XBox.com that went like this:
Since unveiling our plans for Xbox One, my team and I have heard directly from many of you, read your comments and listened to your feedback....